Cooker



Feb. 6, 1923. 1,4442% B. B. DUDLEY.

' COOKER.

FILED JAN.1 ?,1922- 2 SHEETSSHEET 1- fi igo JO Patented Feb. (3, 1923.

UNITE BENJAMIN IB. DUDLEY, 0F VISALIA, CALIFORNIA.

COOKER.

Application fi1ed-J'anuar-y 17, 1922. Serial No. 529,871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN B. DUDLEY,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Visalia, county of Tulare, and State of California, have invented a new and useful Cooker, of which the following is av specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in cookers and its particular object is to provide a cooker to be used in combination with a motor vehicle and constructed in such a manner that it receives its heat from the exhaust gases of the vehicle engine. A further object of the invention is to provide improved means for applying this heat. Further objects and advantages of my device will appear as the description proceeds. v A

With these objects in mind I have illustrated the preferred forms of my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of an automobile having my cooker attached thereto; Figure 2 a longitudinal cross section through one form of the cooker; Figure 3 a top plan view of the same cooker; Figure 4 a side view, partly 'in cross section, of a modified form of a cooker; and Figure 5 a top plan view of the same. While the devices illustrated are the preferred forms of my invention, it will be understood that various changes or modifications may be made with in the scope of the claims hereto attached without departing from the spirit of the invention.

My cooker (1) is shown in Figure 1 as secured to the'running board or the auto-- mobile (2). The cooker as illustrated in Figure 2 comprises a receptacle having hollow walls and a hollow bottom filled preferably with asbestos or some other heat insulating material. The open top of the receptacle is tapered as shown at (4) so as I to provide a seat for the cover (6), which is also hollow and filled with asbestos, as at (7), and has a tapered body as shown at (8) adapted .to be received on the seat (4), the flange (9) of the top being secured to a projection (11) of the receptacle by of studs(12) 'and wing nuts (13). zontal angle irons inner wall of the receptacle so as to form a seat for the cooking vessel (16), which is preferably dimensioned in such a manner as to leave a free space between the cooking vessel and the receptacle, but which Hori- (14) are secured to the extends from its seat upward into contact with the top of the receptacle so that none of the liquid (17 surrounding the cooking vessel can enter the same.

To heat the liquid I use the exhaust gases of the engine, which are led for this purpose from the exhaust manifold, not shown in the drawing, into the pipe (18) secured underneath the Vehicle and ordinarily carryingthe exhaust gases to the mufiier (19). As shown at (21), this pipe (18) is tapped and the exhaust gases are diverted into a transverse pipe (22) connecting, as shown at (23), with an upright pipe (24) extendin through the fender (26) into the space (2) underneath the cooking vessel (16).

From here it is led through a series of concentrically disposed tubes (28) into the upright pipe (29) passing through the bottom of the receptacle and the tender and communicating with the pipe (31) leading back into the main pipe (18) and carrying the exhaust gases into the muffler (19).

A modified form of this device is shown in Figure 4, in which the arrangement of the cooking vessel is somewhat different from that shown in Figure 2. In this device the receptacle is provided with aclosed top (36) having a'plurality of apertures (37) consisting of an annular recess (38) and a tapered portion (39) leading from the same into the receptacle and adapted to form a seat for the tapered flange (41) of the cooking vessel (42). The lid (43) of the cooking vessel hasa tapered body portion (44) nuts (51). It will be seen that in this modification a firmer connection is obtained between the cooking vessel and the lid since the'pressure of the heated liquid will force the cookingvessel into firmer contact'with the lid along the tapered port-ion (41), the

lid being prevented from moving by the clamps (47).

I claim:

1. In combination with the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, a cooker comprising a receptacle having a tapered opening in its top, a cooking vessel having a tapered top 15 the vessel and a horizontal flange resting on flange adapted tofit in said opening, a lid for the vessel having a tapered body 611- gaging the flange of the vessel and a horizontal flange resting on the top of the receptacle'; clamping means for holding the lid in place, and means for guiding the exhaust gases of the engine into the receptacle for heating the cooking vessel.

2. In combination with the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, a cooker comprising a receptacle holding a liquid and having a tapered opening in its top, a cooking vessel having a tapered top flange adapted to fit in said opening, a lid for the vessel having a tapered body engaging the flange of the top of the receptacle, clamping means for holding the lid in place and means for guiding the exhaust gases-through the liquid whereby the contents of the cooker are heated.

3. A cooker comprising a, receptacle holding a liquid and having a tapered opening in its top, a'cooking vessel having a tapered top flange adapted to fit in the opening, a lid for the vessel having a'tapered body engaging the flange of the vessel and a horizontal flange resting on the 'top of the receptacle, clamping means for holding the lid in place, and means for heating the liquid, the pressure of the liquid serving to force the vessel into closer contact with the lid;

. BENJAMIN B. DUDLEY. l 

